Abstract: An electronic balance with scale on top and with parallel guide rods whereby corner-load errors can be corrected by means of the inclusion of at least one leaf spring which is fastened to a load receiver and is supported on the other end on a fixed point of the housing. The magnitude of the correction can be adapted to the corner-load error of the unadjusted parallel guide by means of the selection of the spring stiffness of the leaf spring and/or by means of its effective length.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cargo holder having a planar bottom of a rectangularly shaped configuration. The bottom has two depending girders along its longest dimension. They are each spaced from a center imaginary line. The shortest ends of the bottom has a depending wall with an opening between the said girders. The bottom corners of the depending wall has a corner fact. The same shortest ends of the bottom also has foldable upstanding end walls which terminate at each of the corners at the top with corner fitments. The end walls are designed to fold inwardly downwardly in confrontation with the bottom of the cargo holder so that the cargo holder, when empty and the end walls folded, may be easily stacked to thereby conserve space. The end walls are horizontally hinged at proximate the bottom.

Abstract: The invention relates to the engineering sector of cycle accessories.The derailleur in accordance with this invention is worthy of note as the rear part of the forks (1) (2) is formed to take a quick fixing system to provide for bracing them.

Abstract: An expandable connector to axially join tubular elements. The connector consists of two confronting hollow parts dimensioned to fit into the ends of axially aligned tubular elements. The parts define together a void having an inflatable elastic casing. The casing is pressurized when the tubular elements are in alignment and the hollow parts are in connecting relationship therein. The parts are thereby driven internally against the end portion of the tubular elements in wedge-like manner.

Abstract: The device is outstanding in that the gripping structures (1) are indepent while each being servo-controlled by a system of components (10)-(9) fitted to a drive structure being likely to carry out the relative movement of gripping structures (1) with respect to one another in order to vary their pitch in a continuous manner so that their spacing is in register with that of the notches where the items should be transferred, the assembly of gripping structures being mounted on a support plate which can be moved in translation and height.

Abstract: A rear derailleur for a bicycle. The conventional fixed part to which one end of the usual operating cable is attached in selectively movable to change the angle which the cable makes so as the increase or reduce the extent of transverse movement of the linkage for the same extent of angular movement of the lever.

Abstract: There is disclosed a splatter box for paint including a back drop having an abutment for slapping a solvent loaded brush thereagainst. The box also includes compartments for solvent. A paper towel roll rack is also provided. A convenient bail handle is supplied to carry the box and to hook it onto a support.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cigarette which extinguishes rapidly wherein the tobacco in the cigarette is surrounded by a casing of cigarette paper having areas with lesser and greater air permeability in the form of patterned annular zones.

Abstract: The invention relates to an upright positioning structure with a pushing bar applying the upright positioning and pushing effort to the sub femoral area (3) and more particularly the ischial-femoral angle (3) of the user, pressing against the ischial projections of the user's pelvis and providing a resistance to forward sliding during the lifting up movement, the buttock and lumbar region of the user remaining outside of the pushing bar and unsupported.This structure is particularly applied to armchairs or fixed or mobile seats.

Abstract: In an electronic balance with a scale on top with two guide rods which connect a load receiver to a system carrier fixed to the housing as parallel guide, with at least one translation lever which is connected to the system carrier by means of two springs and with a coupling element (9) which transfers the force corresponding to the mass of the weighed material from the load receiver to the shorter lever arm of the translation lever while the counteracting force imposes on the longer lever arm of the translation lever.

Abstract: The invention is relative to a cardiac valve.This valve is of the type which comprises a means inserted with a controlled and limited clearance into a casing (2) comprising a ring (2.1) and a wire framework constituting arches, which ring comprises a peripheral groove (2.2) on its outer periphery which groove permits the centering and positioning of a covering (3), which valve is characterized in that said means which is inserted into the casing is a module comprising a hemisphere (1.1) extended in the front by a finger (1.3) which extends from the ring toward the outside, which ring comprises an inner profile (2.4) which forms a seat which permits the centering and angular tipping and the articulation of the module (1) in every position of the sweep of the finger.

Abstract: A bowling ball consisting of an inner core of generally elastomeric material, an outer shell of material generally surrounding throughout all the inner core, and the inner core being of generally elastomeric material generally consisting of material significantly softer than the outer shell of hard surfaced material. Upon impact with a bowling pin, the ball assumes an effectively smaller radius, which results in improved penetration of the strike pocket.

Abstract: An electronic balance with a calibrating weight circuit and with a digital processing unit for the automatic drive of the calibrating weight circuit that includes a proximity sensor is built into the balance and that the automatic drive of the calibrating weight circuit by the digital signal processing unit be blocked as soon as the proximity sensor emits an output signal.

Abstract: An electronic balance with a weighing scale which is connected via a parallel guide to a system carrier, and with a translation lever which is rotatably mounted on the system carrier and onto the shorter lever arm of which the force of the weight acting on the balance scale is transferred via a coupling element and on the longer arm of which the coil of an electromagnetic compensation of force is fastened, that at least one spring touches the translation lever for the purpose of astatization, the line of application of which spring passes through the point of rotation of the translation lever. This results in a compact design and a good efficiency of astatization. It is advantageous to use a wire or a band and/or a laterally jutting-out projection on the translation lever as spring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cigarette, which is characterized in that, by batonneing the patterned zones one or several times, the cigarette paper is adjusted from an initial air permeability to an average total air permeability of 85 to 20% of the initial value.

Abstract: A music synthesizer has a pivotable and slidable bar mounted in front of the keyboard of the synthesizer, the bar disposed generally parallel thereto whereby a wrist of a player may cause the bar either to pivot about an external hinge or pivot, or to slide about an axis of the bar. An actuating member is provided which responds to motion of the bar to mechanically operate potentiometers of the synthesizer to provide variably positioned dependent analog signals as inputs to the synthesizer.

Abstract: There is disclosed a combination crop remover and neck breaker for use as part of a continuous processing station adjacent a conventional poultry processing line wherein partially processed poultry is given a two step processing treatment. The station includes a plurality of modules that are moved in synchronization with the poultry line. The modules egage the upside down hanging birds in a clasping fashion. The modules have a neck breaker means and a probe means for entering the backside of a bird through a previously cut opening for the purpose. The probe under the aegis of a vacuum and structural features entwines the crop and other viscera and removes same when the probe is withdrawn. The probe is then cleansed of the viscera when the module has been moved to another location at its station. The so-treated poultry is permitted to continue on its path in the processing line.

Abstract: In a wound filter module with an areal or flat filter band with draining support and spacing band wound around a draining means, central hollow core (K), whose longitudinal edges are enclosed in a wound state in a sealing element (4,6,4',6'), the filter band and the spacing band (1,3) are connected, resting on one another in a coinciding manner, by their two ends to a closed, that is, endless band (B1, B2, B3, B4, Bn) which encloses a central hollow core (K) or a filter core (KB1; KB1,B2;KB1,B2,B3) with its inner side and which is wound around the latter in a spiral manner. Every further, closed filter band with spacing band encloses the particular filter element (K, B1) previously formed and is wound around the latter. The fluid to be filtered and also the filtrate obtained from the individual layers can penetrate both transversally as well as tangentially in the direction of the individual spiral windings (B1 to Bn) to the hollow core (K).